The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 29
‘King! if he fell, of Uladh’s sons one half For Naisi’s sake should lie ere three days dead, And for my surety broken.’
Who acts: King, one half · What happens: fall, lie, break · To what, where: dead
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, one half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 2 | King | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 fell | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sons | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sons | case |
| 9 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Uladh | case |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | obl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 half | nummod |
| 13 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 lie | nsubj |
| 14 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 sake | case |
| 15 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sake | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Naisi | case |
| 17 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 half | nmod |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lie | aux |
| 19 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sons | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 21 three | advmod |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 days | nummod |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 dead | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lie | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 broken | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 broken | cc |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 surety | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 surety | nmod:poss |
| 28 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 broken | obl |
| 29 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fell | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | King | of Uladh's sons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of son=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | should | one half for Naisi's sake | dead three days | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | King not said here | for my surety | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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